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THE Privy Council Medical Research Council has published as the sixtieth of its Special Report Series a valuable memoir by Dr. Brownlee, the director of statistics of the council, on the use of death-rates as a measure of hygienic conditions (H.M. Stationery Office, 1922, 80 pp., 35. net). Some of the methods employed for that purpose are likened by Dr. Brownlee to those of the tailors of Laputa. He divides the subject into two parts: (1) death-rates in general and (2) mathematical treatment, and illustrates it by 30 tables and 16 diagrams. On special points he has had recourse to Sir Alfred Watson, whose great experience in the construction of mortality tables must have been valuable.
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Mortality Tables. Nature 109, 389–390 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109389b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109389b0